[TChris]

Maybe someone from the "open source ping list" can explain how this helps America and Americans? This IS your mechanism working as good as you could possibly hope, correct?

You misunderstand. It's not IBM's job to help America and Americans. IBM's job is to help IBM. I suspect this move will help IBM in many ways. They'll get all kinds of training and consulting work from this.

Perhaps the more pertinent question is: How does this harm America and Americans? G.E., can you tell us?

[Golden Eagle]

It's not IBM's job to help America and Americans.

Especially since most of their employees are outside the U.S. these days, right?

How does this harm America and Americans?

By lowering the value of software, which is currently a very important industry in the U.S. Why should the Russians buy anything from anyone else here, when IBM is buttering their bread for free?

[Bush2000]

You misunderstand. It's not IBM's job to help America and Americans. IBM's job is to help IBM.

Yeah, we know. IBM has a long history of consorting with our enemies (ie. Nazis, etc).

[dljordan]

"You misunderstand. It's not IBM's job to help America and Americans. IBM's job is to help IBM."

Yeah, they helped IBM by selling card sorting machines to the Nazi's prior to WWII too.